Cross-border payments are undergoing a fundamental transformation. As financial institutions continue their migration to ISO 20022, while simultaneously exploring stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital asset-enabled settlement models, the industry faces both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges.
Join BAFT for an in-depth discussion of its latest white paper, Cross-Border Payments Reimagined: Navigating ISO 20022, Stablecoins, and Digital Assets for the Next Era of Global Transactions. This webinar will examine how payment infrastructures are evolving beyond traditional correspondent banking toward a more interconnected, interoperable, and data-driven ecosystem.
Industry experts and contributors to the paper will explore the strategic implications of ISO 20022 adoption, the growing role of stablecoins and tokenized deposits in cross-border settlement, and the importance of interoperability across traditional and emerging payment rails. The discussion will also address key regulatory, compliance, liquidity, operational resilience, and governance considerations that institutions must navigate as they modernize their payments infrastructure.
Topics Include:
Whether you are involved in payments, transaction banking, treasury, compliance, operations, technology, or digital asset strategy, this session will provide practical insights into how financial institutions can position themselves for the next era of global payments modernization.
Transaction banking professionals, payments executives, treasury and liquidity managers, compliance and risk professionals, operations leaders, technology teams, fintech partners, and policymakers interested in the future of cross-border payments.
Cross-border payments are undergoing a fundamental transformation. As financial institutions continue their migration to ISO 20022, while simultaneously exploring stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital asset-enabled settlement models, the industry faces both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges.
Speakers
Brian Anderson
Vice President, Capital Markets Sales Leader
Finzly
Esther Galiana
BAFT Global Payments Industry Council member
Global Head of Cross Border Payments and Cash Management Solutions
BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking
Renata Vilanova Lobo
BAFT Global Payments Industry Council Chair
Managing Director, Payments
J.P. Morgan
The 2026 BAFT Webinar: Cross-Border Payments Reimagined registration is complimentary, but you do need to register to attend this event.
The Webinar will be hosted via Zoom. For a seamless experience, you need to download Zoom to your device, A Zoom link for the webinar will be sent to all registered attendees in the registration confirmation email and three days prior. Please remember to block your calendar immediately for October 14, 2026, for one hour, starting at 9:00 AM (EDT).
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Brian Anderson is Vice President, International Banking Development at Finzly. Brian has spent his career introducing innovative fintech solutions to International Bankers in Global Payments, Foreign Exchange and Trade Finance. With over 30 years’ experience in business development and product management at financial technology companies like Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, and Finzly, Brian brings deep domain expertise in foreign exchange, international and domestic payments, treasury management, trade finance and other markets.
Esther Galiana is the Global Head of Financial Institutions at BBVA. She is also involved in BBVA´s agenda regarding transformation and sustainability. Ms. Galiana has extensive corporate & investment banking experience combined with corporate experience in the health care sector. Additionally, she has been active in strategy and business development at BBVA e-commerce and BBVA Wholesale Banking & Asset Management. Prior to BBVA, she worked with Santander New York in Structured Trade Finance. Earlier in her career, Ms. Galiana worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in banking supervision. She has been Vice Chair of BAFT and co-chair of the BAFT Europe Council. Ms. Galiana is also a professor at the Masters in Banking and Financial Regulation of the University of Navarra.
Renata Vilanova Lobo is the Head of Global Clearing at J.P. Morgan, being responsible for Clearing infrastructure, product, solutions and services related to cross border payments provided globally. Renata leads the product development, innovation and maintenance, go-to-market strategy, and client messaging of Cross Border Payments solutions globally offered to Financial Institutions and Corporate clients. In this role Renata has responsibility for providing strategic direction, leadership and oversight for the global correspondent banking business, working with J.P. Morgan stakeholders to deliver safe, efficient and innovative cross-border payments solutions. Renata joined J.P. Morgan in 2011 and for almost a decade she focused on building core cash management capabilities and growing the Payments business in Latam (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia). Renata has 25+ years of experience in the financial market, holding various positions leading local and international cash management and liquidity services, from a Product, Risk Management and Sales perspective.
The webinar is being hosted online via Zoom.
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